Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Symbol of Fascismo, to be seen on the reverse of a new U. S. dime...
Other marvels: 1) the "stickpin watch" of Nicholas II, thin as a dime and half its diameter, varying not one minute in a month; 2) a jeweled "orange tree," eight inches high, the leaves of emeralds, with ruby fruits, diamond flowers, the whole opening at the pressure of a button to display an enameled nightingale, singing and flapping its wings; 3) the plain gold and ivory rattle, ordered by sensible Catherine the Great for her children; 4) a gold stage-coach four inches long and an inch and a half high with a 20-carat diamond* cut like a lantern...
...Many a Christmas will be happy without TIME. - ED. Sirs: mitted Having by taken Subscriber note of the Hennessley* I herewith submit : Save TIME- read it ! MRS. J. H. FRANSEN Whittier, Calif. Not bad. - ED. Sirs: In the matter of "better slogans" - A wish, a drop of ink, a dime† Remitted weekly, procures Eternal TIME. CHARLES E. KEITH San Francisco, Calif. Sirs: . . . Suggested slogan : Queen Elizabeth said : "All my possessions for one moment of time." (Supposed to be her dying words.) F. ADAMS Cambridge, Mass. Sirs: "If you take the time to read TIME you save time...
...engine-room and shook hands with several minions who had been provided with white gloves against this contingency; was informed by a gallant engine oiler that Rumanian engine oil is best; was presented with what the donors described as "the finest watch in the World" (smaller than a dime) by high seas representatives of the New York News Photographers' Association who snapped Her Majesty incessantly; visited the steerage and kissed there a Rumanian baby; laid her royal head each night on pillows embroidered with the Rumanian royal crest and motto: Nihil Sine Deo;* chewed gum when assured...
...dealers were going to sell the new Willys-Overland "Whippet," a low-slung coursing car designed to make 55 miles an hour and 30 miles on a gallon of gasoline; a roustabout car that "turns on a dime," stops with a swish of its four-wheel brakes. Out in the yards 885 of these machines waited to be driven away to dealer showrooms in the farthest reaches of the country. Mr. Willys was content. He was the first manufacturer to offer a U. S. equivalent to the diminutive European touring-traffic-and-economy cars like the Bean in England...